B.B.
King (born Riley B. King on September 16, 1925) is an American blues
guitarist and singer-songwriter, widely considered one of the best and
most respected blues musicians of all time.

B. B. King arrived
in Memphis for the first time in 1946 to work as a musician but after
few months of hardship he left, going back to Mississippi. There he
decided to prepare himself better for the next visit and returned to
Memphis two years later. Initially he worked at the local R&B radio
channel WDIA as a singer. In 1949, he began recording songs under
contract with Los Angeles based RPM Records. Many of King's early
recordings were produced by Sam Phillips, who later founded Sun
Records. King was also a disc jockey in Memphis, where he gained the
nickname "Beale Street Blues Boy", later shortened to "B. B." Before
his RPM contract, B. B. had debuted on Bullet Records by issuing a
single "Miss Martha King" (1949) that got a bad review on Billboard
magazine and did not chart well.

In the 1950s, B. B. King became
one of the most important names in R&B music, amassing an
impressive list of hits under his belt including "You Know I Love You,"
"Woke Up This Morning," "Please Love Me," "When My Heart Beats like a
Hammer," "Whole Lotta Love," "You Upset Me Baby," "Every Day I Have the
Blues," "Sneakin' Around," "Ten Long Years," "Bad Luck," "Sweet Little
Angel," "On My Word of Honor," and "Please Accept My Love." In 1962,
King signed to ABC-Paramount Records, which was later absorbed into MCA
Records, and then his current label, Geffen Records.

In November 1964, King recorded the legendary Live at the Regal album at the Regal Theater in Chicago, Illinois.

B.
B. King in concert in France (1989)King's first success outside the
blues market was his 1969 remake of Roy Hawkins' tune "The Thrill Is
Gone." King's version became a hit on both pop and R&B charts,
which was rare for an R&B artist. It also gained the number 193
spot in Rolling Stone's Top 500 Songs Of All Time. He gained further
rock visibility as an opening act on The Rolling Stones much-ballyhooed
1969 American Tour. King's mainstream success continued throughout the
1970s with songs like "To Know You Is to Love You" and "I Like to Live
the Love." Between 1951 and 1985 King appeared on Billboard's R&B
charts 74 times.

Tracks01. Bad Luck Soul02. Get Out of Here03. Bad Case of Love04. You're Breaking My Heart05. My Reward06. Shut Your Mouth07. I'm in Love08. Blues for Me09. Just Like a Woman10. Baby, Look at You

It's been
speculated that Blues in My Heart was recorded in late 1961 right
before B.B. King left Modern for ABC, possibly with everything getting
cut in one session. If that was the case, it might account for the
grind-it-out feel of these ten small-combo sides (probably with Plas
Johnson on sax and Maxwell Davis on keyboards), which are lacking in
noteworthy songs, with the possible exception of "Downhearted" (aka
"How Blue Can You Get?").

King, of course, brings committed
singing and playing to the session; he was too much of a pro to give
anything less than that to everything he did in the studio back then.
Even by the adjusted standards of King's brand of urban blues, however,
these songs just sound too similar to each other to rate among his
better work, often sticking to a slow to midtempo shuffle and nearly
identical chord progressions. Fact is, when "Troubles Don't Last"
follows "Got 'Em Bad," the arrangement's so similar that at first
you're wondering whether it's "Got 'Em Bad, Pt. 2" (though it isn't).

"Downhearted"
does have a renowned if slightly cruel lyric, though, especially when
B.B. changes to a stuttering tempo and complains, "I gave you seven
children/And now you want to give them back!" Still, even that
particular song was done more memorably on King's famous concert album
Live at the Regal a few years later. Note that the version of "Got 'Em
Bad" is different from the one that came out on a Kent single in 1965,
which added a Maxwell Davis piano overdub.

Tracklist:01. I've Got Right To Love My Baby02. What Way To Go03. Long Nights (The Feeling They Call The Blues)04. Feel Like A Million05. I'll Survive06. Good Man Gone Bad07. If I Lost You08. You're On The Top09. Partin' Time10. I'm King